Month August 2008

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.” Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000) US psychologist, Harvard Business Review (January – February 1968) To find previous Quotes of the…

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “Crisis situations are usually unanticipated sudden developments, originating either within or outside the organization… if these could be managed within the framework of normal practice they would not be crises after all.” S. K. Chakraborty (b. 1957) Indian academic, Management by Objectives: An…

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.” Robert X. Cringely, US journalist & author, Infoworld (6 March 1969) To find…

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “When money talks, few are deaf.” Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) US novelist, Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938) To find previous Quotes of the Day look here

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well here but it’s harder to get funding for your new business if you come from Leicestershire than if you went to Eton and are the son of some banker.” Isabel Maxwell (b. 1950) British president of…

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “Truth is the glue that holds governments together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.” Karl Augustus Menniger (1893-1990) US psychiatrist To find previous Quotes of the Day look here

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “Your company does not belong in any market where it cannot be the best.” Phillip Kotler (b. 1931) US marketing management thinker To find previous Quotes of the Day look here

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “The opportunities for distinction, prestige, personal power, and the attainment of dominating positions are much more important than material rewards in the development of.. commercial organizations.” Chester Barnard (1886-1961) US management theorist, Organization and Management (1948) To find previous Quotes of the Day look here

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “No business enterprise can succeed without sharing the burden of the problems of other enterprises.” Ayn Rand (1905-82) US writer, Atlas Shrugged (1957) To find previous Quotes of the Day look here

A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained “Technology will move so fast that unfortunately, or fortunately for me, you will be required to buy a new phone quite often.” Charles Dunstone (b. 1964) British founder of Carphone Warehouse, Management Today (August 1999) To find previous Quotes of the Day look here